"Wei" did you say that?

yeah, well, i won't give the penguins at the bronx zoo long to live.

Cordon the affected areas with nerve gas.

Essentially, the OP is militating for a centralized dictator to deal with the emergency. "You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that it's an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before." Thus spake Rahm Emanuel. The tradition extends from Sulla to Napoleon to every petty Don, triad leader, or military dictator of our own era.

In fact, when stuff gets real, there will be no lack of opportunists seizing all infrastructurally available power to respond to the crisis. The best process known for dealing with the pre-crisis stage is the democratic process. It is sub-optimal for any given threat, but has the merit of being a tolerable living condition which is capable of responding to the broad range of threats which arise in the ordinary course of events.

You, sir, are a liar.

You recall incorrectly. Previously, the distribution of copper isotopes was measured. The theory was that Ni was transmuted to Cu. This theory appears to be refuted.

that actually works.

In my experience, teams with south asian ex-pat managers are always FDD, always have massive cost overruns, and always have massive attrition.

actually, if you were dealing in bitcoin in 2012, you're probably wealthy enough so that you should just bail out of the u.s. and go to a civilized country.

It does me no good to read stuff I can't share.

this is a boondoggle. pork for a few politically connected beaurocrats in labcoats.

that a government would want to prevent people from coming or going is a pretty strong indication that the country in question is a squalid hell-hole of human oppression.

the centrally planned fusion research program is a huge waste of money, always has been, always will be. a serious research program, in the public interest, would fund diverse approaches to fusion energy technology. ITER is a hogslop feeding trough for a politically connected minority of researchers.

cut out corruption and you will find that the hot fusion budget shrinks by orders of magnitude.

heck, we didn't respond to an unarmed invasion - why would response to an armed invasion be any more robust?